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The Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) mapped 52 cross-border guarantee instruments from 34 entities, including MDBs, DFIs, ECAs, and specialized institutions. The analysis reveals that while guarantees can mobilize 6-25 times more financing than loans, the current landscape is fragmented, predominantly focused on debt and commercial risks, and largely climate-agnostic. Most guarantees target middle-income countries, with a notable focus on Africa. The report identifies a lack of climate-exclusive guarantees and limited equity investment coverage, recommending further research into the cost, duration, and additionality of these instruments to help meet the estimated USD 2.4 trillion annual requirement for the green transition in EMDEs (excluding China).

The report details the development and application of the Small-Scale Irrigation Mapping (SSIM) tool in Burkina Faso, designed to capture irrigation on areas smaller than one hectare. This high-resolution approach, utilizing 30-m Landsat 8 imagery and ground truthing, addresses the limitations of previous maps (250m to 1km resolution) and serves to validate the Targeting Agricultural Water Management Interventions (TAGMI) decision-support tool.

The document argues that while individual CVF countries have low emissions, their collective impact is significant, equivalent to the world's fifth largest emitter. It provides a 'menu of options' for updating NDCs across key sectors—energy, transport, forests, and agriculture—while emphasizing the need for enhanced international finance, technology transfer, and robust national legal frameworks to implement these ambitions.

The report identifies six clusters of trade-related commitments in the 2030 Agenda and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, ranging from subsidy reform to the multilateral trading system. It argues that because trade's contribution to sustainable development is 'pervasive but diffuse', a multi-level review process—comprising national self-assessments, regional peer learning, and global orchestration via the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF)—is necessary. The authors suggest leveraging existing mechanisms, such as the WTO's Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM) and OECD country reviews, to avoid overburdening states. To ensure coherence, the report recommends the creation of an inter-agency task force to synthesize trade-related reporting for the HLPF.

The workshop brought together 35 participants from 21 global and regional web initiatives to map their niches, share challenges, and establish the Climate Knowledge Brokers Group. Key outcomes include a detailed knowledge map of existing platforms and the identification of four joint projects focusing on linked open data, a 'portal-of-portals' for signposting, shared search facilities, and metadata standards.